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Borrowed Children

by George Ella Lyon
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" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.

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  • Release date

    June 29, 2012

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780813137797

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      • ISBN: 9780813137797
      • File size: 369 KB

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      • ISBN: 9780813137797
      • File size: 368 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 3.6
    • Lexile® Measure: 580
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 1988
      Because her mother is bedridden, Mandy, the narrator of this Depression-era tale, has to stay home from her beloved school to run the house. Mandy's voice is older than her 12 years, but it seems appropriate to a girl who takes on daunting chorescooking and cleaning for a family of eight in an isolated farmhouse with no electricity or running water. When the strain of her many responsibilities takes its toll on Mandy, she is allowed to take a trip alone to visit her maternal grandmother at Christmastime. Mandy sees the common thread that connects her grandmother to her mother and on down to herself. Lyon has created a wonderful character in Mandy, at once smart, wry and naive. Descriptions are sparked with lambent imagery ("Organ music is rich and excited, like darkness broken into light''). Lyon's simple yet penetrating observations on families and love convey truths as pertinent to adults as to youthful readers. Ages 10-12.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 20, 1999
      In this Depression-era tale about a 12-year-old girl, "simple yet penetrating observations on families and love convey truths as pertinent to adults as to young readers," said PW. Ages 10-14.

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:3.6
  • Lexile® Measure:580
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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